18 JULY 1998, page 27

Vive La Difference

Sir: Your correspondent Christian Hurel's unconditional Anglophilia (Letters, 4 July) seems in fact to be, in a characteristically haughty Gallic manner, rather conditional. I,......

2020 Vision

Sir: Sion Simon's vision of the 2020 political scenario (`The 2020 tops', 4 July) makes too many assumptions and ignores too many possibilities. He takes it for granted that......

Poor Talc'

Sir: 'The poor little Greek boy' is evidently not poor financially. Will he please tell us in what respects he regards himself as poor? And at what age does he consider one......

Letters Sci Fact

Sir: Michael Harrington's dismissal of sci- ence fiction (Books, 4 July) betrays such selective and dated knowledge of the genre as to be a pretty bad piece of fiction itself. I......

Ugly Slur

Sir: I find the 'Country life' column in your issue of 30 May offensive. To describe the ladies who supported the Army Benevolent Fund Collection as looking 'thin-legged and......